Edinburgh International Fashion Festival

Talk: Amanda Harlech

jaco — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:28:54 +0000

Reading extracts from a collaboration with photographer, Nick Knight, Amanda Harlech entranced with a talk centred on three dramatic ‘flashpoints’ in her career as muse and core collaborator to John Galliano and Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel. Set against the visual backdrop of a selection of couture pieces from her private collection, Amanda Harlech took us on a journey through her fascinating role in fashion, highlighting dramatic moments in her career and unveiling her primary role in the poetic process of conceiving a new collection.

Photographs by Philip Stanley Dickson

PLEATS PLEASE Issey Miyake with Callum Innes

jaco — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:25:49 +0000

The Edinburgh International Fashion Festival collaborated with the Edinburgh Art Festival to stage a dramatic pop-up fashion performance showcasing a selection of PLEATS PLEASE Issey Miyake pieces interacting with a striking new light installation by Callum Innes under Regent Bridge and culminating at the Ingleby Gallery. Callum Innes is one of the UK’s leading contemporary artists.

Photographs by Nico Krijno

Exhibition: Syn/Aesthesia

jaco — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:08:04 +0000

A sensory feast, this exhibition presented fashion as art, one of the vital elements of the Edinburgh International Fashion Festival.

The exhibition featured; video installations by Hussein Chalayan; a video installation by Pam Hogg (with accompanying photograph by Rankin); a video piece by Ryan McGinley for Pringle of Scotland featuring Tilda Swinton; sensual hanging sculptures by Aurora Passero; a photographic installation by Wendy Bevan; a bejewelled installation by BEX ROX; work from South African photographer, Nico Krijno and NYC based photographer, Adrian Mesko; and an installation of Chanel and Galliano couture pieces personally chosen from her collection by Amanda Harlech.

Photographs by Nico Krijno and Peter Dibdin

CHANEL Métiers d’Art

jaco — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:18:09 +0000

Fashion Festival director, Anna Freemantle featured in the April edition of UK Vogue wearing pieces from the CHANEL Métiers d’Art collection first shown at Linlithgow Palace in December.

Runway show: Pam Hogg

jaco — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:10:33 +0000

With supporters that include Vivienne Westwood, Kate Moss, Siouxsie Sioux, Stephen Jones, Nick Rhodes, Alison Mosshart, Gareth Pugh, Judy Blame, Suzanne Bartsch, Kate Nash and Jo Wood, Pam Hogg is widely regarded as one of the most exciting designers working today.

This centrepiece show presented a collection of her most important pieces from AW/09 – AW/12, including some of the stunning finale pieces from these collections.

This was a rare opportunity to see a sumptuous retrospective, Pam Hogg’s personal selection of highlights from the collections: ‘Time Machine’ AW/09, ‘Goddess at War’ SS/10, ‘Valley of the Shadow of Darkness’ AW/10, ‘To Kingdom Come’ SS/10, ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’ AW/11, ‘Notre Dames’ SS/12 and most recently, ‘Wild Life’ AW/12.

Photography by Philip Stanley Dickson

Exhibition: Pam Hogg, Far From The Madding Crowd

jaco — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:47:09 +0000

An exhibition featuring couture by Pam Hogg and photographs by much lauded photographer, Rankin.

Installation photographs by Peter Dibdin and Nico Krijno

Exhibition: Tolaas & Murkudis, Endless_Lessend No. 1

jaco — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:47:00 +0000

‘The Endless Dress - The Endless Smell’

A collaborative artwork between celebrated fashion designer, Kostas Murkudis and leading expert smell researcher/artist, Sissel Tolaas, commissioned specifically for the Edinburgh International Fashion Festival. The project is the first stage of a larger project and will involve Murkudis designing the first stage of a dress while Tolaas simultaneously creates the first stage of a smell – both works intrinsically related to each other and interwoven at every stage.

The process will been documented by filmmaker, Jonas Lindström and the resulting images and the sound from the process (cutting material, collecting molecules, the making of) will be used as background of the presentation in Edinburgh.

Beginning its journey at Edinburgh International Fashion Festival 2012, Endless_Lessend No.02 and No.03 will follow No.01 as the smell composition grows successively from festival to festival.

Photographs by Peter Dibdin

Runway show: Borcher

jaco — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:22:25 +0000

Imagined as a dark fairy tale, this dramatic runway show by celebrated young Danish fashion brand, Borcher, closed the 2012 festival, showcasing the most striking pieces from their recent collections.

Photographs by Philip Stanley Dickson

Runway show: Bebaroque

jaco — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:19:13 +0000

Opening EIFF 2012 was Bebaroque, an award winning Scottish fashion label created by Chloe Patience and Mhairi McNicol. Unique design, at the heart of the bebaroque brand, is seen through distinctive screen print and hand embroidery, which combine to create a sumptuous signature style that is increasingly being recognised and celebrated within the industry

Photographs by Philip Stanley Dickson

Runway Show: Aimee McWilliams

jaco — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:19:12 +0000

For the Edinburgh International Fashion Festival, luxury designer, consultant and creative director Aimee McWilliams presented a diverse archive showcase that embodied the multiple facets of her past work, from designs for couture houses in Paris to one-off pieces commissioned by private boutiques.

For this rare collection, Aimee presented pieces from Balmain, where she worked as creative director in 2009 and one-of-a-kinds from her eponymous label, a regular fixture on the London fashion scene.

Photographs by Philip Stanley Dickson